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The US’s Electoral College system is now functioning far from how its creators originally intended, Gustaf Kilander writes. In the most powerful democracy in the world, two of its last four ...
So the argument against getting rid of the Electoral College is that people would only campaign in the big population centers, and that rural America or small-town America — even within a big ...
The Framers’ Electoral College design offered no mechanism for elevating the popular vote loser to the presidency. ... America’s toxic polarization and the crisis of election legitimacy will ...
If the Electoral College did not achieve a decisive majority, then the House of Representatives was to choose the president from among the top five candidates, [47] [citation needed] ensuring selection of a presiding officer administering the laws would have both ability and good character. Hamilton was also concerned about somebody unqualified ...
The closest the United States has come to abolishing the Electoral College occurred during the 91st Congress (1969–1971). [14] The presidential election of 1968 resulted in Richard Nixon receiving 301 electoral votes (56% of electors), Hubert Humphrey 191 (35.5%), and George Wallace 46 (8.5%) with 13.5% of the popular vote. However, Nixon had ...
Electoral college undermines democracy, say critics, who call for its abolition to ensure voters’ voices are heard and their votes count. From our readers:
A warning for the free people of this nation is this: One’s voice will be drowned out if the Electoral College is dismantled, because America will no longer protect every citizen’s freedoms ...
Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America, 3rd ed. (Yale, 2019). The Strategic President: Persuasion and Opportunity in Presidential Leadership (Princeton, 2009). The Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency (Oxford, 2009), co-editor. Governing by Campaigning: The Politics of the Bush Presidency, 2nd ed. (Longman, 2007).